On the starting new blogs front. I suppose at least I'm only just contributing articles in this case. Meanwhile, the Austin Center for Photography seems to be off to a great start. A lecture from Mary Ellen Mark next week, then Alec Soth in June.
You have to watch these blog things carefully. They seem to reproduce when you aren't paying attention. Right now in addition to this main blog on photography, I have four others that I'm contributing to. Doug Stockdale asked me to give some insight into the photographic exhibitions that are happening in and around central Texas, at his PhotoExhibit site. There is a new post there from me on the Fritz Henle retrospective that just recently started at the Harry Ransom Center here in Austin.
I am also part of the Stills photographic group, who create a collaborative photoblog. Membership is limited to 10 people and commenting is only enabled for people within the group. We've had some interesting discussions in the short time I've been a member. The final photographic blog, Everyday Ironman, is dedicated to my current triathlon project, with additional contributions from the two other writers working on the idea. This is more of an ongoing log of the progress of the project, with typically more photographs than I'm showing here.
I also have an infrequent technical/work related blog, Five Computers, which covers topics of technical interest to me, including data visualisation, electronic design automation and verification.
These blogs are like rabbits. Hopefully I can refrain from starting any more this year.
Why do you read my blog?
What makes you come back, if you come back?
What sort of subjects are you more interested in?
What would you like to read more about?
Feel free to email me suggestions or leave feedback in the comments. I'm interested to hear what sort of things you've enjoyed in the past or what more you'd like to hear about in the future.
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Pitchertaker asks "What I'm curious about is why would you ask such questions?"
In part this is motivated by Paul's post on the reasons to blog, which has had me thinking about what I'm doing here and why people might be interested in reading it or not. Secondly, it's because I'm going through a period of introspection and discovery, or at least trying to. I'm following the exercises in the Artist's Way, mostly motivated by the recommendations from Craig Tanner. I'm trying to decide how much of that, if any, to share, because a lot of it comes across as whiney, self-important complaining. Those who have looked at the Artist's Way might recognise that as my inner critic talking :) So far it has brought up some interesting ideas and thoughts, but I'm hesitant to share them, in part because I suspect they aren't robust enough to stand the slings and arrows of random blog commenters, but I'm trying to understand if that sort of thing is even interesting. Hope that in some way answers the question.
